Grand Jury Exonerates 2 Suspects

April 21, 1988|By LARRY KELLER, Staff Writer

A Broward County grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict two men implicated in homicides in two separate incidents earlier this year.

The State Attorney`s Office could elect to take the cases of Sam Fiddler, 66, and John Pacay, 61, back to the grand jury or charge them with lesser crimes, but either is unlikely unless new evidence is developed.

Fiddler was never charged with a crime. In February, Fiddler and Samuel Dickman, 54, got into an argument near the entrance of Nick`s diner in Hallandale. Fiddler chased Dickman and struck him twice in the head, causing Dickman to hit his head on a curb.

Dickman had a stroke later that evening and died six days later from head injuries.

In the second case, Hollywood police charged Pacay with second-degree murder after they said he shot Henry Hunter Sr., 42, in the neck with a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun.

Hunter chased Michael Dees to Pacay`s Hollywood home, where he began choking him because he wanted Dees to stop seeing his daughter, police said. Dees was a friend of Pacay`s son.

The senior Pacay heard a commotion at his door, and thinking his son was in trouble, loaded his pistol and went out on the porch, police said. He warned Hunter to let Dees go, and Pacay`s gun went off when Hunter stood up and lunged at him, police said.